Full disclosure: I’ve always loved skinny jeans. People say they’re uncomfortable but honestly, to me, there is nothing more comforting than having my calves hugged by soft, stretchy denim. So earlier this year, when Miu Miu, the instigator of all present trends, showed models traipsing down the catwalk in low-rise skinnies, my interest was piqued. The Instagram-based trend forecaster Data, But Make It Fashion confirmed it: after analysing hundreds of social media posts mentioning skinny jeans,...

If you’ve been on the internet over the past few weeks, it’s been near impossible to avoid talk of The Substance, the best-known example of the “feminist body horror” revival which also includes Nightbitch and Shell. From tales of Demi Moore’s career best performance, to its scathing critique of the beauty industry and society’s attitudes towards ageing women, the internet is awash with (mostly) praise for Coralie Fargeat’s second feature. 
The film stars Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle, an Oscar-win...

To be past your first birthday in London queer nightlife is a blessing and a curse – a blessing in that you made it, just like most businesses, most parties give up the ghost in their first year. And while it can be a curse to have to rise to the occasion of bigger expectations,  bigger venues, bigger fees, more pressure and bigger queues, the Opia girlies haven’t hesitated as they’ve planted their heels in each stride forward. From a launch night collaboration with Chema Diaz, to their designer...

Anohni is an artist whose voice does so much more than sing – there is a power to her words and an indescribable beauty to listening to her speak. Between songs, she often begins lilting, meandering tales that take you from the minute and personal to the monumental and everlasting. At her Barbican show on July 2, it was childhood memories of sugar in tea, understood through the violence and crimes committed by colonial Britain in acquiring those substances.
Her latest project, Anohni and the Joh...